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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: Menticirrhus: Latin, mentum = beard, chin + Latin, cirrus = curly.
More on authors: Bloch & Schneider.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range 10 - ? m. Subtropical; 43°N - 11°S

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Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to southern Florida in USA and Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan in Mexico.

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Maturity: L_m 25.6 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 46.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 7251); common length : 30.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 3702); max. published weight: 1.1 kg (Ref. 40637); max. reported age: 4 years (Ref. 127588)

Adults occur usually in shallow coastal waters over sand to sandy mud bottoms. Common in the surf zone and in estuaries. Juveniles may enter tidal rivers and creeks of low salinity. Feed mainly on worms and crustaceans. An excellent food fish.

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Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 January 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: minor commercial; gamefish: yes

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 11.2 - 27.6, mean 24.2 °C (based on 232 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00832 (0.00484 - 0.01430), b=3.01 (2.87 - 3.15), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.6 ±0.5 se; based on diet studies.

Generation time: 2.0 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 2 growth studies.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.5).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (26 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Moderate vulnerability (43 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Medium.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 98 [55, 187] mg/100g ; Iron = 1.1 [0.6, 1.9] mg/100g ; Protein = 21.4 [19.4, 23.7] % ; Omega3 = 0.334 [0.195, 0.554] g/100g ; Selenium = 21.8 [11.5, 42.6] μg/100g ; VitaminA = 9.35 [3.35, 31.47] μg/100g ; Zinc = 0.851 [0.609, 1.240] mg/100g (wet weight);

Menticirrhus saxatilis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)